Dickenson County Herald

ALEUTIAN:
Blind Man's Buff
For more than a thousand miles through the fog-shrouded waters of the Aleutian islands. a mammoth game of blind man's buff is being played between American air and naval forces and the Japanese invaders who may be preparing a major push against continental North America.
Bad as well as good news concerning the fortunes of this grim game was contained in reports from the Aleutian sector. On the debit side was the navy's announcement that at the same time they landed at Attu and Kiska, the Japs also occupied a third island-Aggatu. 750 miles west and slightly north of the United States base at Dutch Harbor, on Unalaska.
On the credit side was a communique revealing that the landings on the three small islands had cost the Japanese 13 ships sunk or damaged. This total included one heavy cruiser, three destroyers and a troop-laden transport sunk and an aircraft carrier, four cruisers and three destroyers damaged.
The communique disclosed I that the Dutch Harbor base was attacked twice on June 3 and 4, instead of once, and that in the second raid an old United States station ship, the Northwestern, which had been beached and converted to use as a barracks, had been destroyed.